Organized Crimes New Drug: Web Attacks on Financial Firms

March 2, 2011 – Organizations in financial services industries are being specifically targeted in Web attacks, according to a principal for a large accounting and consulting firm. And those attackers increasingly are highly sophisticated criminals, not the hackers of the past.

These attackers “know what assets they’re going after and they’re going after you in a very orchestrated way,’’ according to Edward Powers, principal, Deloitte & Touche.